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<a name="Folioge"></a><h3>Folioge BETA v0.2</h3>
<p>Folioge is a browser based note taking program.<p>
<p>The advantage of Folioge is it's connectivity.  Since it's browser based, you
can link to any webpage, youtube video, graphic and so on.  Imagine that you
are writing a book.  One of your scenes is set in Bombay India.  You find a youtube
video of downtown Bombay at rush hour and you embed the video in your notes.  You
can then use this video for inspiration.</p>
<p>Another advantage of Folioge is its tree organization.  Looking at the image to
your right, you can see a typical Folioge layout for a book.  Organizing the project
into folders breaks the project down into more manageable tasks.  Writing a book
is a huge task.  Writing chapter 1, scene 1 isn't so daunting.</p>
<p>Yet another advantage of Folioge is that it doesn't require installagion.  It runs 
out of its folder.  Close Folioge down, copy it to another folder and you've just made a back
up.</p>
<p>Folioge is very small, less than 4megs, and very portable you can copy it to a
 USB drive and carry it from 
computer to computer or, after configuring it, you can leave it running on your
home computer and access the files from work.</p>
<a name="startingfolioge"></a><h3>Starting and stopping Folioge</h3>
<p>Open the Folioge folder. Click on the Folioge.exe launcher.  The launcher opens. Click 
on the blue link to launch Folioge in your browser.  To close Folioge, click on the launcher's
shut down button. </p>

<a name="howitworks"></a><h3>How it works</h3>
<p>You have your folders on your left.  As you click on these folders the text the folder
contains will appear on the right.  You can edit this text by clicking on the edit 
button.</p>
<p>On the left, above the folders are the folder buttons.  Click on these buttons
to add a root folder, add a folder to another folder, rename a folder, open all folders,
close all folders, delete and search folders.</p>
<p>In addition to the folder buttons, you can drag and drop folders into other folders.
Click on a folder, hold your left mouse button down and drag the folder to another folder.
Let go of your mouse button to drop the folder into the new folder.</p>	
<a name="searchreplace"></a><h3>Search and replace</h3>
<p>After you get a lot of folders which hold a lot of text, you'll need a way to 
search through all that.  Folioge has a search and a replace feature.  Click on the
magnifying glass to find the search and replace dialog.  Type in your search term
and click on the submit button.  If your search finds anything, you'll soon see a list
of folder links.  Click on each link to view the text.  You can also edit the text
while in search mode.</p>
<a name="usingeditor"></a><h3>Using the editor</h3>
<p>Select a folder and click on the edit button to your right to open the editor.
After you have made your changes to the text, click on the submit button.  The text
is now stored in the folder.</p>
<p>Hover your mouse over the 'Tools >' menu item.  The editor has a lot of ways 
to manipulate text.  Keep in mind that the ultimate 
goal is to convert the text so that it appears with your changes in your browser.  
The editor tries to display your text in a way that it will appear as html.  It
takes a little getting used to, but it's well worth it.</p>	
<a name="backingup"></a><h3>Backing up</h3>
<p>Since Folioge isn't installed, all you have to do is to copy the Folioge folder to
a new folder.  Perhaps renaming the new folder, folioge_bkup.
The whole Folioge folder is tiny, less than 4megs so just copy the entire folder. 
It zips down to about 2megs.</p>  
<p>There is a second method.  If you don't want to copy the whole folder, all of
your data is stored in the Folioge.db file.  Copy the Folioge.db file for your backup.
Incase you lose your Folioge files, you can do a reinstall and replace the 
Folioge.db file with your backup.</p>
<a name="webserver"></a><h3>Micro Apache webserver</h3>
<p>Whey you launch Folioge, you start a webserver on your machine.  The webserver
is the apache webserver version 2.  It has PHP and SQLite.  Since it's a webserver,
once you reconfigure the webserver config file,
you can access Folioge from any computer with Internet connectivity.  
Folioge is runs on the <a href="http://microapache.amadis.sytes.net/">Micro-Apache</a>
distribution. </p>
<p>Also, you can ad your own web projects to your Folioge installation.  Just create a 
directory for your project in .../wwwroot.  PHP and the SQLite database are up and running.</p>
<a name="configserver"></a><h3>Web server config file</h3>
<p>Out of the box, Folioge is configure so that only a browser running on the same machine
as Folioge can access it.  Also, logging is turned off so as to conserve space.  You can
change both of these values by browsing to the httpd.conf file.  By editing the httpd.conf
file you can allow other machines to access Folioge, allowing you to connect to Folioge
at home from work for example.  Or you could allow all the PCs at work to connect to
Folioge running on your workstation.
<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html">The apache web server 
site</a>  has information on how to edit the httpd.conf file.</p>
<p>Remember that Folioge is connected to the internet.   The settings in the http.conf
file are the only thing keeping everyone on the internet out of your Folioge.
Changing the security settings is not for novices.  At the most, I would add 
specific IPs to the 'Allow from' line in the ./wwwroot directory directive.  And I 
would turn logging on and check my log files periodically.</p>
<p>Some things to consider when connecting to Folioge are firewalls and wireless routers.
The firewall has to allow traffic over port 8808 and if you have a wireless routher 
your wireless router needs 
to pass the external IP to your private address.  And perhaps your place of work has 
a firewall too.</p>
<a name="foliogename"></a><h3>The Folioge name</h3>
<p>Where does the Folioge name come from?  It's not 'no' + 'tree'.  It's more of a
mixing of note and tree, eg, NOTrE + tReE.  Eh, names are hard to come up with.</p>
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			<h2>Index</h2>
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			<li><a href="#Folioge">About Folioge</a></li>
			<li><a href="#startingfolioge">Starting and stopping Folioge</a></li>
			<li><a href="#howitworks">How it works</a></li>
			<li><a href="#searchreplace">Search and replace</a></li>
			<li><a href="#usingeditor">Using the editor</a></li>
			<li><a href="#backingup">Backing up</a></li>
			<li><a href="#webserver">Micro apache web server</a></li>
			<li><a href="#configserver">Web server config file</a></li>
			<li><a href="#foliogename">Folioge name</a></li>
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